Strong G5350φθέγγομαι
to speak
- Transliteration
- phtheggomai
- Pronunciation
- ftheng'-gom-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
φθέγγομαι
[in LXX for עָנָה, נָבַע hi., etc.;]
of men or animals, to utter a sound or voice: absol., Act.4:18; before ἐν φωνῇ, 2Pe.2:16; with accusative, ὑπέρογκα, 2Pe.2:18.†
(AS)
[in LXX for עָנָה, נָבַע hi., etc.;]
of men or animals, to utter a sound or voice: absol., Act.4:18; before ἐν φωνῇ, 2Pe.2:16; with accusative, ὑπέρογκα, 2Pe.2:18.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5350 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- speak3
First verses
- Acts 4:18And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
- 2 Peter 2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
- 2 Peter 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
φθέγγομαι,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.228, etc.)]: future φθέγξομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.341:)]aorist ἐφθεγξάμην, Epic dialect and poetry φθεγξάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (18.218, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.14:)]perfect ἔφθεγμαι, 2nd pers. singular ἔφθεγξαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 830c)], 3rd.pers. singular ἔφθεγκται (transitive) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 77a2, (_passive_) [prev. author] “Cael.” 279a23)]: —utter a sound or voice, especially speak loud and clear, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, φθεγξάμενος παρὰ νηός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.603, compare 10.67, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 336b)] (properly of all animals that have lungs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535a30):)]
I of the human voice, ἀνθρωπηΐῃ φωνῇ φ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.57; ἀπὸ γλώσσας 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; διὰ τοῦ στόματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 238b; [ψυχῆς] φθεγξαμένης ἀΐων 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 7.5; φθεγξαμένου τευ ἢ αὐδήσαντος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.497)]; with a participle expressing the kind of cry, φθέγξομ᾽ ἐγὼν ἰάχουσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.341; τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφθέγγοντο καλεῦντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.229, compare 12.249; so σφοδρῷ τῷ πνεύματι φ. 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1; φ. μετὰ βοῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 791e, etc.; μέγιστον ἁπάντων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.206; καλὸν καὶ μέγα [prev. work]216, compare 337; ἐλεύθερον καὶ μέγα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485e)]; also of weak, small voice, φθεγξάμενος ὀλίγῃ ὀπί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.492; τυτθὸν φθεγξαμένη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.170)]; of the battle-cry, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.18)]; of the recitative of the chorus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Oec.” 8.3; οὐκέτι πόρρω διθυράμβων φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 238d)]; οὐδ᾽ ἂν φθέγξασθαι δυνηθείη would not be able to utter a syllable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.192, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 368c; opposed to silence, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.6)]; εἶτα σὺ φθέγγει..; open your mouth.. ? [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.283)]; of children just born, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 587a27)]:—Constr.:—with accusative cognate, utter, ἔπος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.106; ἀγέλαστα 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 92; ὀδυρμοὺς καὶ γόους ἀνωφελεῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 34; καίρια 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 862 (Lyric poetry))]; ἀράς, λόγους, βλασφημίαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 475, “Med.” 1307, “Ion” 1189; ῥῆμα μοχθηρόν “SIG” 1175.19 (Piraeus, Tab. Defix., 4th-3rd c.BC))]; τἀληθῆ [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 49b; ὑπέρογκα ματαιότητος φ. NT.2Pet.2.18)]: the person addressed added with a preposition, φ. εἰς ἡμᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ph.” [same place]; πρός τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 534d)]; later τισί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 27; φ. τι περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.13)]; τὸ φθεγγόμενον, absolutely, that which uttered the sound, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65.)]
I.2 of animals, as a horse, neigh, whinny, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.84, 85)]; of an eagle, scream, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.23)]; of a raven, croak, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 16)]; of a fawn, cry, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.62)]; of birds, opposed to ἄφωνοί εἰσι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 618a5; ἐν τῷ θέρει ᾄδει [κόττυφος], τοῦ χειμῶνος.. φ. θορυβῶδες [prev. work] 632b17)]; of worms, φ. οἷον τριγμόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.10.5)]; of certain fish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 300, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 1.135.)]
I.3 of inanimate things, of a door, creak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1099)]; of thunder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.3)]; of trumpets, [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 4.2.7, 5.2.14)]; of the flute, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Smp.” 6.3, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 532)]; of the lyre, φόρμιγξ φ. ἱρὸν μέλος [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 761, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1019b15)]; of an earthen pot, εἴτε ὑγιὲς εἴτε σαθρὸν φ. whether it rings sound or cracked, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 179d)]; φ. παλάμῃσι to clap with the hands, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 5.106, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.505.17 (uncertain).)]
II ={ὀνομάζω}, to name, call by name, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 527a, “Phlb.” 25c, 34a)]; τῷ πλέγματι τούτῳ τὸ ὄνομα ἐφθεγξάμεθα λόγον gave it the name of λόγος, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 262d; φ. εἴδωλον ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ὡς ἓν ὄν [prev. work] 240a)]; φ. γιγνόμενα speak of things as coming into existence, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tht.” 157b)]; καὶ τὸν κύλλαστιν φθέγγου use the word κ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 257)]; also τῇ δυνάμει ταὐτὸν φ. have the same meaning, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 394c.)]
III with accusative person, sing, or celebrate one aloud, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.36)]; also, tell of, recount, θεῶν ἔργα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 12.1.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.228, etc.)]: future φθέγξομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.341:)]aorist ἐφθεγξάμην, Epic dialect and poetry φθεγξάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (18.218, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.14:)]perfect ἔφθεγμαι, 2nd pers. singular ἔφθεγξαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 830c)], 3rd.pers. singular ἔφθεγκται (transitive) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 77a2, (_passive_) [prev. author] “Cael.” 279a23)]: —utter a sound or voice, especially speak loud and clear, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, φθεγξάμενος παρὰ νηός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.603, compare 10.67, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 336b)] (properly of all animals that have lungs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 535a30):)]
I of the human voice, ἀνθρωπηΐῃ φωνῇ φ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.57; ἀπὸ γλώσσας 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; διὰ τοῦ στόματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 238b; [ψυχῆς] φθεγξαμένης ἀΐων 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 7.5; φθεγξαμένου τευ ἢ αὐδήσαντος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.497)]; with a participle expressing the kind of cry, φθέγξομ᾽ ἐγὼν ἰάχουσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.341; τοὶ δ᾽ ἐφθέγγοντο καλεῦντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.229, compare 12.249; so σφοδρῷ τῷ πνεύματι φ. 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1; φ. μετὰ βοῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 791e, etc.; μέγιστον ἁπάντων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.206; καλὸν καὶ μέγα [prev. work]216, compare 337; ἐλεύθερον καὶ μέγα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 485e)]; also of weak, small voice, φθεγξάμενος ὀλίγῃ ὀπί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.492; τυτθὸν φθεγξαμένη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.170)]; of the battle-cry, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.18)]; of the recitative of the chorus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Oec.” 8.3; οὐκέτι πόρρω διθυράμβων φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 238d)]; οὐδ᾽ ἂν φθέγξασθαι δυνηθείη would not be able to utter a syllable, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.192, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 368c; opposed to silence, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.6)]; εἶτα σὺ φθέγγει..; open your mouth.. ? [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.283)]; of children just born, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 587a27)]:—Constr.:—with accusative cognate, utter, ἔπος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.106; ἀγέλαστα 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 92; ὀδυρμοὺς καὶ γόους ἀνωφελεῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 34; καίρια 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 862 (Lyric poetry))]; ἀράς, λόγους, βλασφημίαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 475, “Med.” 1307, “Ion” 1189; ῥῆμα μοχθηρόν “SIG” 1175.19 (Piraeus, Tab. Defix., 4th-3rd c.BC))]; τἀληθῆ [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 49b; ὑπέρογκα ματαιότητος φ. NT.2Pet.2.18)]: the person addressed added with a preposition, φ. εἰς ἡμᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ph.” [same place]; πρός τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 534d)]; later τισί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 27; φ. τι περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.13)]; τὸ φθεγγόμενον, absolutely, that which uttered the sound, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65.)]
I.2 of animals, as a horse, neigh, whinny, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.84, 85)]; of an eagle, scream, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.23)]; of a raven, croak, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 16)]; of a fawn, cry, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.62)]; of birds, opposed to ἄφωνοί εἰσι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 618a5; ἐν τῷ θέρει ᾄδει [κόττυφος], τοῦ χειμῶνος.. φ. θορυβῶδες [prev. work] 632b17)]; of worms, φ. οἷον τριγμόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.10.5)]; of certain fish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 300, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 1.135.)]
I.3 of inanimate things, of a door, creak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1099)]; of thunder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.3)]; of trumpets, [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 4.2.7, 5.2.14)]; of the flute, [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Smp.” 6.3, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 532)]; of the lyre, φόρμιγξ φ. ἱρὸν μέλος [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 761, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1019b15)]; of an earthen pot, εἴτε ὑγιὲς εἴτε σαθρὸν φ. whether it rings sound or cracked, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 179d)]; φ. παλάμῃσι to clap with the hands, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 5.106, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.505.17 (uncertain).)]
II ={ὀνομάζω}, to name, call by name, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 527a, “Phlb.” 25c, 34a)]; τῷ πλέγματι τούτῳ τὸ ὄνομα ἐφθεγξάμεθα λόγον gave it the name of λόγος, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 262d; φ. εἴδωλον ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ὡς ἓν ὄν [prev. work] 240a)]; φ. γιγνόμενα speak of things as coming into existence, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tht.” 157b)]; καὶ τὸν κύλλαστιν φθέγγου use the word κ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 257)]; also τῇ δυνάμει ταὐτὸν φ. have the same meaning, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 394c.)]
III with accusative person, sing, or celebrate one aloud, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.36)]; also, tell of, recount, θεῶν ἔργα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 12.1.)]